I had no idea how big the topic of dealing with conflict was. All I knew was that I didn’t like it – and I avoided it at all costs. I didn’t know that there was a good reason for this. Now it makes sense that I couldn’t handle the big rejection when I was a teenager – because I was already on shaky ground…
Read MorePraying God’s word hotwires prayer into the most powerful force in the universe. It is part of the armour of God. Combining word-based prayer with praying about everything is a formidable combination. However, to pray God’s word, we have to have it either in front of us, or in our hearts, ready to come out of our mouths. A time may come when the only word we have, is what we have stored up in our hearts.
Read More“Don’t call me, I’ll call you!” I said to my fiancée, Ray, with no intention of calling him ever again. “I do not want to hear your voice, or see your face. I need space, and I don’t think it’s going to end well.” To say I was extremely annoyed was the understatement of the year. After 13 years of being single, it was just two weeks out from our wedding and I’d just hit a major red flag.
Read MoreTrue peace is not the absence of turmoil or trouble, it’s the ability to fly above the storm like the eagle. In the last few, tumultuous weeks, the world as we knew it has changed. What has been building for years in secret, has finally begun to surface. Whether we like it or not, whether we agree with it or not, whether we can handle it or not.
Read MoreThe sifting, sorting, the shaking and the breaking has begun… the end game is repentance, holiness, realignment, rebuilding and breakthrough. Because He loves us. Now is the time for obedience. Writing The Wild Side was large. For years the Lord said, “Write the book.” For years I argued, complained and procrastinated.
Read MoreThe one time I heard God speak audibly was not pleasant. I was crushed from the week-long bootcamp with the Lifeway First Wave Army. My body thought it was dying and my soul wallowed in a strange cocktail of self-pity and pride. This week of bootcamp felt like 6-months, but I still had 6-months stretching out in front of me. The hardest part was being separated from my 3-year-old boy, which seem to cause physical torment.
Read MoreI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, everything that can be shaken, will be shaken. Awake, awake! Fear the Lord! The shaking has only just begun. Global lockdown… a stark reminder that in the blink of an eye, things as we know it can completely change. In the blink of an eye…
Read MoreI cannot stop asking forgiveness daily for the sins of our nation (along with many other intercessors - specifically regarding abortion), just as Daniel did while in exile…
Read MoreFor weeks now, I’ve had a strong stirring in my spirit that the times are much more urgent than we know, while the world so easily lulls us to sleep. Everyone is busy and tired, many just hobble along, struggling to survive nursing serious wounds. Others, set their faces like flint focus on the positive for fear of offending people. “They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” Jeremiah 6:14 (NIV)
Read MoreThe grass is crispy and brown, the cattle are skinny and every living thing is suffering in Northland in the terrible heat. There’s been no rain for weeks, and this is on the back of many consecutively dry summers which has depleted our rivers, reservoirs and aquifers. Kaikohe has run out of water and other towns are not far behind…
Read MoreThe angel standing on my right, and the demon standing on my left, both leaned forward with great anticipation. They were both watching my lips, and waiting to hear what was going to come out of my mouth. They were waiting for their marching orders. After all, the power of life and death are in our tongue (Proverbs 18:21). Remember from part 1 of this blog, angels harken to the spoken word of God (Psalm 103:20-21).
Read MoreMy feet were swollen lumps of mincemeat and mono-blisters, and my muscles were so stiff they got rigor mortis if I stopped longer than ten seconds. The pack on my back weighed nearly as much as I did, and the mountain was almost vertical.
We were two days in to the 3-day tramp in the Kaimai Ranges on the Lifeway First Wave Army training, and I was feeling it. I hit a wall and cried out to the Lord for help. I remembered the Bible says, “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV).
Read More…and a real life tale of the healing power of communion. The morning of the conference dawned. I stretched and looked forward to a coffee and my quiet time preparing with the Lord. I’d been squeezed in at the last minute to join the lineup of speakers at a local Christian conference in Dargaville. Padding to the kitchen to put the jug on, I remembered that I’d set a trap to catch a wild cat that was being a real problem...
Read More"Eventually, the time came to sort through my old clothes that Dad had stored in his garage for me. Looking at them through new eyes was thoroughly shocking. I might as well have just raided the closet of an anorexic stripper. There was little there of any use at all, so most of it needed to be dispatched straight to the second-hand shop as soon as humanly possible, and preferably under the cover of night..." excerpt from my memoir, The Wild Side
Read MoreLate November 2016, in the early hours as I slept, I had worship in my spirit and was still in a place of deep worship upon awakening for three mornings in a row. The third morning, as my spirit worshipped while I slept, I also had a dream.
Read MoreThe ugly truth behind relationships and God’s original plan for them. My own journey from codependency on a toxic relationship to dependence on Christ, and the process pay-off of accepting Jesus as my husband.
Read MoreAnd the battle goes on. I feel like I did after the great push re-launching The Wild Side… nothing could have prepared me for the epic effort it took and the new land it opened up. And again, now three years further on, nothing could have prepared me for the changes caused by the seismic ripples still going out beneath the surface. The people who ask for help or encouragement. The people who come with their love and support. The new opportunities and platforms. The new residential healing and recovery centre preparations. The new wildsidepublishing.com website. And in and through it all I have felt the pressure and pain of new levels and new devils. The fear, the faith.
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